Clayton has to be the luckiest guy in rock. Just happened to fall in
with 3 very talented...and loyal...friends. It bugs me to no end
watching and Clayton play. I don't agree at all that he's great in the
"less is more" camp. I find it interesting at least live, the song with
the most complex bassline is "40" and Edge plays that.

And I'm a big Ringo supporter for the record.

-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of Jaimie Vernon
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:23 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: With Or Without 'Em


>> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:39:37 Rob wrote:
>>
>> Gloria
>> Two Hearts Beat as 
One
>> With or Without You
>> Pride (which he wrote much of 
the music for, it's
>been documented)
>>
>> Those are 
pretty good bass lines. Bashing Clayton
>is parallel to the 'Ringo Sucks' 
parlor game.
>
>Sorry. As I wrote to Mr. Micek about off 
line:
>
I've played a good portion of U2's material live 
in
cover bands going back to the early '90s. The guy
blows chunks. 
WITHOUT his performance on any of the
above tracks, save "Pride" which 
you claim he
mostly wrote, nothing is lost. I've taught 13 and
14 
kids with no musical knowledge these lines and
had them nail it within 
minutes. That doesn't make
Clayton a genius, it makes him a transparent 
hack.

I've re-written all his lines in every song I've
had 
to cover just to stop the songs from falling
down live. Larry Mullen Jr. 
needs to be heralded as
the force keeping the rhythm section together 
while
Clayton hangs on D, G and A ad infinitum without
adding a 
single exposition or fill (comes from
McCartney, Entwhistle, et al). 
Someone needs to
teach the guy that there are beats in between 
the
one 1 and 16 counts. 

BTW - With or Without You is 
four notes with a
single turn-around in the entire song. Pedantic 
AND
lame. I liked it better when it was called "Every
Breath You 
Take".

Jaimie Vernon,
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